In article ,
"Paul Raulerson" writes:
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> LOL! I would have guessed it to be an acronym as well - it is always
> written as GEM, not as Gem. That usually indicates something special
> about the word, such as it being an Acronym.

Or it indicates a system that doesn't have lowercase, like VMS. :-)

bill


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In article <5grm6lF3h2n07U2@mid.individual.net>, bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>
> Or it indicates a system that doesn't have lowercase, like VMS. :-)

Poor joke. In 1978 VMS was the first system I used where I knew
I could use lowercase and actually did.

I suspect I could have gotten away with it on my PDP-10, but none
of the manuals demonstrated it and most of our terminals didn't
have it.

In article ,
koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <5grm6lF3h2n07U2@mid.individual.net>, bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>
>> Or it indicates a system that doesn't have lowercase, like VMS. :-)
>
> Poor joke. In 1978 VMS was the first system I used where I knew
> I could use lowercase and actually did.
>
> I suspect I could have gotten away with it on my PDP-10, but none
> of the manuals demonstrated it and most of our terminals didn't
> have it.

Hey, I think mixedcase is a good thing. But many people here don't
share that opinion. :-)

bill


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Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article ,
> koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>
>>In article <5grm6lF3h2n07U2@mid.individual.net>, bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>
>>>Or it indicates a system that doesn't have lowercase, like VMS. :-)
>>
>> Poor joke. In 1978 VMS was the first system I used where I knew
>> I could use lowercase and actually did.
>>
>> I suspect I could have gotten away with it on my PDP-10, but none
>> of the manuals demonstrated it and most of our terminals didn't
>> have it.
>
>
> Hey, I think mixedcase is a good thing. But many people here don't
> share that opinion. :-)
>

Mixed case is *not* the same thing as case-sensitivity. Once again
you are misrepresenting the opinions of the vast majority of VMS
users. ;-) (Come to think of it, there's only one person on c.o.v
who is famous for having a broken shift key...)


> bill
>
>

P.S. This post was brought to you in mixed case by an OpenVMS system.

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On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:08:32 -0700, John Santos wrote:

> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article ,
>> koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>>
>>> In article <5grm6lF3h2n07U2@mid.individual.net>, bill@cs.uofs.edu
>>> (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>>
>>>> Or it indicates a system that doesn't have lowercase, like VMS. :-)
>>>
>>> Poor joke. In 1978 VMS was the first system I used where I knew
>>> I could use lowercase and actually did.
>>>
>>> I suspect I could have gotten away with it on my PDP-10, but none
>>> of the manuals demonstrated it and most of our terminals didn't
>>> have it.
>> Hey, I think mixedcase is a good thing. But many people here don't
>> share that opinion. :-)
>>
>
> Mixed case is *not* the same thing as case-sensitivity. Once again
> you are misrepresenting the opinions of the vast majority of VMS
> users. ;-) (Come to think of it, there's only one person on c.o.v
> who is famous for having a broken shift key...)

Here is a bit of esoterica for you
http://de.scientificcommons.org/20647427 click on the link (Verknüpfungen)
>
>
>> bill
>>
>
> P.S. This post was brought to you in mixed case by an OpenVMS system.
>



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Tom Linden wrote:
>
>
> Here is a bit of esoterica for you
> http://de.scientificcommons.org/20647427 click on the link (Verknüpfungen)
>

Interesting. Arthur Sale's comments about Pascal where on a draft
standard. After that paper was published, the drafts (and eventual
standard) now allows underlines in identifiers.

Back in the 1980s, some group inside of DEC did an Internationalization
study on VAX Pascal. They wanted the compiler to recognize upper and
lower case versions of the same "word" where the spellings were
different. For example, there are some French words that gain or loose
an accent when changing case (and sometimes only in Quebec). There are
German words like straße (5 chars long) and STRASSE (6 chars long).
They wanted the Pascal compiler to treat both spellings as the same
identifier. We passed around the report, got a good laugh, and shoved
it in a drawer (I think I still have it).


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In article , John Reagan writes:
>
>
>Tom Linden wrote:
>>
>>
>> Here is a bit of esoterica for you
>> http://de.scientificcommons.org/20647427 click on the link (Verknüpfungen)
>>
>
>Interesting. Arthur Sale's comments about Pascal where on a draft
>standard. After that paper was published, the drafts (and eventual
>standard) now allows underlines in identifiers.
>
>Back in the 1980s, some group inside of DEC did an Internationalization
>study on VAX Pascal. They wanted the compiler to recognize upper and
>lower case versions of the same "word" where the spellings were
>different. For example, there are some French words that gain or loose
>an accent when changing case (and sometimes only in Quebec). There are
>German words like straße (5 chars long) and STRASSE (6 chars long).
>They wanted the Pascal compiler to treat both spellings as the same
>identifier. We passed around the report, got a good laugh, and shoved
>it in a drawer (I think I still have it).

Is that what it means when it says "this feature will be addressed at
some future date?"

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John Reagan wrote:
> Tom Linden wrote:
>>
>>
>> Here is a bit of esoterica for you
>> http://de.scientificcommons.org/20647427 click on the link
>> (Verknüpfungen)
>>
>
> Interesting. Arthur Sale's comments about Pascal where on a draft
> standard. After that paper was published, the drafts (and eventual
> standard) now allows underlines in identifiers.
>
> Back in the 1980s, some group inside of DEC did an Internationalization
> study on VAX Pascal. They wanted the compiler to recognize upper and
> lower case versions of the same "word" where the spellings were
> different. For example, there are some French words that gain or loose
> an accent when changing case (and sometimes only in Quebec). There are
> German words like straße (5 chars long) and STRASSE (6 chars long). They
> wanted the Pascal compiler to treat both spellings as the same
> identifier. We passed around the report, got a good laugh, and shoved
> it in a drawer (I think I still have it).
>
>

And since then the germans has dropped the "double-s", so you'd better
make a new revison anyway... :-)

Jan-Erik.

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:

>
> And since then the germans has dropped the "double-s", so you'd better
> make a new revison anyway... :-)
>

Well, not to side-track, but a quick Google search shows many
publications like Der Spiegel have reverted to the old rules. Even the
new rules in Rechtschreibreform seem to allow the double-s in some
cases. "For the sharp (voiceless) [s] after a long vowel or dipththong
one writes ß, as long as no other consonant follows in the word stem."
So "daß" turns into "dass", but "groß" stays the same.


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John Reagan wrote:

> German words like straße (5 chars long) and STRASSE (6 chars long).

and to compound the problem, I can't count. :-)


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On 07/27/07 11:25, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> John Reagan wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> Back in the 1980s, some group inside of DEC did an
>> Internationalization study on VAX Pascal. They wanted the compiler to
>> recognize upper and lower case versions of the same "word" where the
>> spellings were different. For example, there are some French words
>> that gain or loose an accent when changing case (and sometimes only in
>> Quebec). There are German words like straße (5 chars long) and
>> STRASSE (6 chars long). They wanted the Pascal compiler to treat both
>> spellings as the same identifier. We passed around the report, got a
>> good laugh, and shoved it in a drawer (I think I still have it).
>>
>>
>
> And since then the germans has dropped the "double-s", so you'd better
> make a new revison anyway... :-)

How can you just drop a letter from the alphabet?

What happens to all the books/articles/letters/etc written prior to
when the letter was dropped?

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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 07/27/07 11:25, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> John Reagan wrote:
> [snip]
>>> Back in the 1980s, some group inside of DEC did an
>>> Internationalization study on VAX Pascal. They wanted the compiler to
>>> recognize upper and lower case versions of the same "word" where the
>>> spellings were different. For example, there are some French words
>>> that gain or loose an accent when changing case (and sometimes only in
>>> Quebec). There are German words like straße (5 chars long) and
>>> STRASSE (6 chars long). They wanted the Pascal compiler to treat both
>>> spellings as the same identifier. We passed around the report, got a
>>> good laugh, and shoved it in a drawer (I think I still have it).
>>>
>>>
>> And since then the germans has dropped the "double-s", so you'd better
>> make a new revison anyway... :-)
>
> How can you just drop a letter from the alphabet?
>
> What happens to all the books/articles/letters/etc written prior to
> when the letter was dropped?
>

OK. They changed the written standard so that two "ss" should be used
instead of the special character. Now, there was a *lot* of fuzz
around this, and I'm not 100% sure how it all turned out in the end.

Jan-Erik.

On 07/27/07 16:44, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 07/27/07 11:25, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> John Reagan wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>> Back in the 1980s, some group inside of DEC did an
>>>> Internationalization study on VAX Pascal. They wanted the compiler to
>>>> recognize upper and lower case versions of the same "word" where the
>>>> spellings were different. For example, there are some French words
>>>> that gain or loose an accent when changing case (and sometimes only in
>>>> Quebec). There are German words like straße (5 chars long) and
>>>> STRASSE (6 chars long). They wanted the Pascal compiler to treat both
>>>> spellings as the same identifier. We passed around the report, got a
>>>> good laugh, and shoved it in a drawer (I think I still have it).
>>>>
>>>>
>>> And since then the germans has dropped the "double-s", so you'd better
>>> make a new revison anyway... :-)
>>
>> How can you just drop a letter from the alphabet?
>>
>> What happens to all the books/articles/letters/etc written prior to
>> when the letter was dropped?
>>
>
> OK. They changed the written standard so that two "ss" should be used
> instead of the special character. Now, there was a *lot* of fuzz
> around this, and I'm not 100% sure how it all turned out in the end.

Ah, ok. That makes more sense.

I wish American English spelling could be rationalized, but then
children would need to learn the Old Way and the New Way, leaving
even less time for important things like science and recess.

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Jefferson LA USA

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Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 07/27/07 16:44, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>
>>Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>>>On 07/27/07 11:25, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>>
>>>>John Reagan wrote:
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>>>Back in the 1980s, some group inside of DEC did an
>>>>>Internationalization study on VAX Pascal. They wanted the compiler to
>>>>>recognize upper and lower case versions of the same "word" where the
>>>>>spellings were different. For example, there are some French words
>>>>>that gain or loose an accent when changing case (and sometimes only in
>>>>>Quebec). There are German words like straße (5 chars long) and
>>>>>STRASSE (6 chars long). They wanted the Pascal compiler to treat both
>>>>>spellings as the same identifier. We passed around the report, got a
>>>>>good laugh, and shoved it in a drawer (I think I still have it).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>And since then the germans has dropped the "double-s", so you'd better
>>>>make a new revison anyway... :-)
>>>
>>>How can you just drop a letter from the alphabet?
>>>
>>>What happens to all the books/articles/letters/etc written prior to
>>>when the letter was dropped?
>>>
>>
>>OK. They changed the written standard so that two "ss" should be used
>>instead of the special character. Now, there was a *lot* of fuzz
>>around this, and I'm not 100% sure how it all turned out in the end.
>
>
> Ah, ok. That makes more sense.
>
> I wish American English spelling could be rationalized, but then
> children would need to learn the Old Way and the New Way, leaving
> even less time for important things like science and recess.
>

It's been done. See http://www.rajeun.net/index4.html
;-)

In article ,
Ron Johnson wrote:

> On 07/27/07 16:44, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:



> > OK. They changed the written standard so that two "ss" should be used
> > instead of the special character. Now, there was a *lot* of fuzz
> > around this, and I'm not 100% sure how it all turned out in the end.
>
> Ah, ok. That makes more sense.
>
> I wish American English spelling could be rationalized, but then
> children would need to learn the Old Way and the New Way, leaving
> even less time for important things like science and recess.

The Netherlands produced a revised dictionary in 1954 (The Little Green
Book), and are continuing to revise it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_o..._changes_of_19
46_.28Flanders.29_and_1947_.28The_Netherlands.29

That wraps, tinyurl for that:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2d35lq

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In article ,
John Reagan wrote:

> Tom Linden wrote:
> >
> >
> > Here is a bit of esoterica for you
> > http://de.scientificcommons.org/20647427 click on the link (Verknüpfungen)
> >
>
> Interesting. Arthur Sale's comments about Pascal where on a draft
> standard. After that paper was published, the drafts (and eventual
> standard) now allows underlines in identifiers.
>
> Back in the 1980s, some group inside of DEC did an Internationalization
> study on VAX Pascal. They wanted the compiler to recognize upper and
> lower case versions of the same "word" where the spellings were
> different. For example, there are some French words that gain or loose
> an accent when changing case (and sometimes only in Quebec). There are
> German words like straße (5 chars long) and STRASSE (6 chars long).
> They wanted the Pascal compiler to treat both spellings as the same
> identifier. We passed around the report, got a good laugh, and shoved
> it in a drawer (I think I still have it).

An interesting story thanks. On a similar theme, in German it is
accepted practice to use an "e" after the vowel instead of the umlaut
for representation in block capitals, data entry - ae, oe, ue instead of
ä, ö, ü. This also applies to e-mail and website addresses to get around
keyboard, font and 7-bit limitations.

Some database search engines such as address lookups match on either
form, others don't. Out of interest, does anyone know how a match on
either form is done?

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In article ,
John Reagan wrote:

> John Reagan wrote:
>
> > German words like straße (5 chars long) and STRASSE (6 chars long).
>
> and to compound the problem, I can't count. :-)

And why would a compiler author need to? :-)

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P. Sture wrote:
> In article ,
> John Reagan wrote:
>
>
>>John Reagan wrote:
>>
>>
>>>German words like straße (5 chars long) and STRASSE (6 chars long).
>>
>>and to compound the problem, I can't count. :-)
>
>
> And why would a compiler author need to? :-)
>

Indeed! That's what computers are for! If God had meant us to count
above twenty he would have given us more digits! ;-)

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:

> And since then the germans has dropped the "double-s", so you'd better
> make a new revison anyway... :-)

We didn't drop the "ß". The new rules for orthography just uses the "ß"
letter infrequently then before.

Regards
Götz
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